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Ice Closes MAX in August
OK, I just couldn’t resist the headline. TriMet will actually be doing some maintenance Saturday morning to add ice caps to the Blue Line in Gresham. Let’s look forward to better service in inclement weather.
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Just for Fun
Hat tip to Dave Brook. Enjoy.
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Streetcar Ridership Survey
Regular readers will know that one of the transportation hats I wear is chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Portland Streetcar. Following up on the spot-check fare inspections we’ve been doing, we’re looking at fare policy for the Streetcar. As part of that exercise, we want to understand ridership and fare purchase patterns. We’ve…
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Conservative Reappraisal
Hat tip to Roland who posted this report over at CommissionerSam.com. I’ve just finished reading the report (“Does Transit Work? A Conservative Reappraisal”). The main idea is to assess the success of transit in not in terms of total trips, but rather in terms of those categories of trips for which it is competitive (the…
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Walking the (Freight) Talk
Sam Adams and Rex Burkholder seem to have gotten into a little dust up in the Friday’s Tribune (Freight mobility matters … at least in Portland). We’re at the beginning of the semi-annual MTIP process, which allocates about $60M in flexible transportation funds. This is only about 4% of the total funds spent in the…